The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state’s entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators.

Most states have a “winner-take-all” system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. However, Maine and Nebraska allow for their electoral votes to be split between candidates. The winner within each congressional district gets one electoral vote for the district. The winner of the statewide vote gets two additional electoral votes.

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Distribution of Electoral Votes

Total Electoral Votes: 538; Majority Needed to Elect: 270

Electoral votes are allocated based on the Census. The allocations below are based on the 2010 Census. They are effective for the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections.